Versace to Go Fur Free for Future Collections
The legendary fashion house recently joined a growing list of designers promising to ban fur from future collections.
“Fur? I am out of that. I don’t want to kill animals to make fashion. It doesn’t feel right,” Donatella Versace told The Economist’s 1843 magazine. The brand previously used mink, fox, and raccoon dog fur in its collections.
While Versace hasn’t released an official statement confirming its discontinued use of fur yet, the International Human Society has already praised the company for its decision.
“Versace is a massively influential luxury brand that symbolizes excess and glamour, and so its decision to stop using fur shows that compassionate fashion has never been more on trend. Such influential brands turning their backs on cruel fur makes the few designers like Fendi and Burberry who are still peddling fur, look increasingly out of touch and isolated,” said Claire Bass, the Executive Director of Humane Society International UK.
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